A Photographer Spent 117 Hours In The Severe Cold To Get These Incredible Shots

Every year, from mid-February to mid-March, a grand event happens in the Wapusk National Park in Canada: polar bears come out from their caves with their four-month-old babies for the first time.

"So we got really close, so close that I could hear him breathing. The bear didn't care but would take a peek at us." The federal government recently rejected the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, but that wasn't the case when Gilardini snapped this photo.